People weren’t just trick-or-treating, parading or creating an insane traffic jam grid block between Santa Monica Boulevard and Hollywood on Halloween — they actually went to the movies on Halloween: The top 10 titles saw an average 46% spike in business over Wednesday. Sony’s Venom: The Last Dance ruled Halloween with $2.8M, +12%, for a
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Cinemark, the nation’s third-largest theater chain, and smaller Marcus Theatres piled on strong financial results Thursday after sunny numbers from Imax on Wednesda –, all bright notes amid ongoing box office uncertainty. Marcus shares popped by more than 10% on the numbers. The Milwaukee-based chain “achieved growth with a markedly improved film slate that played
EXCLUSIVE: Kate Winslet movie Lee has unseated Ferrari as Sky‘s biggest original movie at the UK box office. Ellen Kuras’ biopic of American photographer Lee Miller has taken £4.3M ($5.6M) since opening in theaters on September 13 in more than 600 locations across the UK and Ireland, according to Sky, which launches the movie on
Everyone will begin returning to the movies just before Thanksgiving on November 22 as Universal’s Wicked and Paramount’s Gladiator II just hit tracking with respective openings of $80M+ and $65M. Both have potential for upside, and we won’t know if we’re within a Barbenheimer vortex until it happens — though that would not be a
The Fithian Group, launched last fall by longtime NATO chief John Fithian, has developed a data-driven, digital theatrical distribution marketplace it hopes will revolutionize how independent filmmakers and rights-holders book and release movies in theaters. An early version of the platform, called Attend, rolls out Stateside in the first quarter of 2025. The U.S. and
Imax shares nosed higher in after-market trading, up over 3% on solid numbers, new installations, and a roaring good outlook by CEO Rich Gelfond. Content revenues of $30 million fell 32% year-over-year, up against Christopher Nolan’s phenomenon Oppenheimer — the company’s fifth highest grossing title of all time — in the year prior. Despite the decline, the
The strong (well, some of them) got stronger on Broadway last week even as the overall box office trended slightly downward, with 28 productions on the 36-show roster reporting receipt dips. In all, the 36 shows grossed $33,921,069 for the week ending October 27, about 2 percent lower than the previous week’s 35-show roster. Total
Sony will own the first weekend of November at the box office, with the second frame of the Culver City lot’s Venom: The Last Dance down around 60%, or $20 million, for No. 1, followed by the studio’s release of Miramax’s adult drama Here. Here, which reps the Forrest Gump reteam of filmmaker Robert Zemeckis,
Amazon MGM Studios‘ big $200M Dwayne Johnson and Chris Evans Santa Claus caper movie, Red One, landed on tracking recently and it’s eyeing a $36M opening in U.S./Canada with a chance for upside. The Jake Kasdan directed reteam with Johnson post their Jumanji movies opens on Nov. 15. Red One was originally green lit for
Jumanji 3 is happening on December 11, 2026, Sony has just announced. That’s the same pre-Christmas slot that Sony has launched the previous films in its Jumanji franchise. The movie will have full command of Imax and PLF screens that weekend. Director Jake Kasdan and star posse Dwayne Johnson, Kevin Hart, Jack Black and Karen
Four top films this weekend are indies – five including The Substance at no. 11, as the specialty market roars back to life. No. 3 at the domestic box office is a great story, Conclave from Focus Features, the studio behind the Downtown Abbey films. excels at drawing still elusive but key older demos to
The new untitled Spider-Man movie has been added to the release calendar for July 24, 2026, with Tom Holland returning as the webslinger and Shang Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings filmmaker Destin Daniel Cretton directing. No other movies are dated on that weekend. The fourth installment opens in the wake of a
Indie releases from limited (Memoir of a Snail) to wide (Conclave) are testing an increasingly lively specialty box office heading into awards season with a handful of decorated documentaries this week including Dahomey, Black Box Diaries, My Name Is Alfred Hitchcock and Another Kind of Wilderness and some notable expansions. Also hitting theaters this weekend,
EXCLUSIVE: Kino Lorber and Zeitgeist Films have acquired North American rights Bruce David Klein’s feature documentary Liza: A Truly Terrific Absolutely True Story which follows the career of and life of Liza Minnelli. The Atlas Media production made its world premiere at last summer’s Tribeca Film Festival and recently played at the Hamptons Film Festival,
It was ten years ago today, that the first John Wick hit theaters and began to play. While the first Keanu Reeves starring, Chad Stahelski directed, and Derek Kolstad written movie flew under the radar at the box office only grossing $43M stateside and $86M worldwide, the R-rated action pic ala the original Austin Powers
EXCLUSIVE: Currently we hear that Sony/Marvel’s Venom: The Last Dance is eyeing around $8M in previews tonight, maybe more by the morning. Showtimes began at 2PM in U.S. Canada at 3,500 locations. At that figure, there’s a path to a $65M opening, which we mentioned would rep the lowest start for the trilogy stateside after
New Regency’s Brad Pitt and Ed Norton gritty noir, Fight Club, is 25 years old and to celebrate there’s a 4K Ultra HD remaster overseen by David Fincher with plans for a theatrical re-release as well as a companion art book from the studio and Insight Editions. The book features never-before-seen visuals, exclusive interviews, and
UPDATED: Here’s something we rarely see: It’s a dead heat for the launch of Paramount’s Smile 2 at the domestic and international box office with $23M apiece. That makes for a $46M global debut. Overseas, the sequel to 2022’s surprise hit opened in 62 markets with the horror audience out in full force. On a like-for-like
Marvel Studios and Disney’s highest grossing R-rated movie of all-time, Deadpool & Wolverine, just won’t stop at the domestic box office, for in its 13th weekend, the Shawn Levy directed, Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman starring feature has clicked past Warner Bros.’ Barbie ($636.2M) at the domestic box office to become the 12th highest grossing
Great indie numbers this weekend as Anora turned out highest per-screen-average of 2024 at $90k on six screens for a $540k gross. We Live In Time, the best platform expansion of the year, grossed $4.2 million on 956 screens in week 2 for a $4.5 million cume. Newcomers Union and The Line fared well on
UPDATE: The new Ke Huy Quan action movie from Universal and 87North is now titled Love Hurts. The release date for Feb. 7, 2025 remains unchanged. PREVIOUS MARCH 14: With Love, the new action movie from Universal and 87North starring Oscar winner Ke Huy Quan, will be released in theaters on Feb. 7, 2025. 87North
The National Association of Theatre Owners has named PR veteran and former Variety journalist Andrew Stewart as Chief Communications Officer. In the role, Stewart will lead all efforts for the exhibitor trade organization’s communications and media-relations strategy. He’ll be based out of the Los Angles office and report directly to NATO president and CEO Michael
Landmark Theatres plunged in value from Covid, high interest rates and Hollywood strikes to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars, according to a May deposition by Landmark owner Charles Cohen disclosed in ongoing litigation with lender Fortress Credit Corp. The deposition was filed by Fortress in New York State Supreme Court, where a
In what comes as no surprise, Marvel Studios’ Blade won’t be coming out on Nov. 7, 2025, rather Disney is opening 20th Century Studios’ Predator: Badlands. The reboot of the famed Wesley Snipes Marvel movie was first announced at San Diego Comic-Con in 2019 with 2x Oscar winner Mahershala Ali starring. Production and development on
With the last couple of October weekends stateside being off from the strike-laden marketplace a year ago, here’s hoping that superhero sequelitis and moviegoers’ erratic attitudes toward prestige fare don’t push the theatrical marketplace down further. Sony this weekend has its Marvel title Venom: The Last Dance, which is bound to see its lowest opening
Sunset Blvd. and Romeo + Juliet added some major heft to Broadway’s autumn box office last week, with the ecstatically reviewed Blvd. grossing $1,211,699 even with press comps during its opening week, and R+J, selling out its eight previews at Circle in the Square, taking $1,056,775. R+J, starring starring Kit Connor and Rachel Zegler, opens
Sony’s Venom: The Last Dance chomped into its first suite of international box office markets today, with the Marvel symbiote nabbing a strong $9.3M start in China. This is the biggest opening day for a superhero film since Spider-Man: Far From Home in the market, and portends a five-day launch in the upper $30M neighborhood there.
There’s joy in toon town today as Disney/Pixar’s Inside Out 2 has become the highest-grossing animated movie ever at the worldwide box office. With $1,462.8M through Tuesday, the sequel has surpassed Disney Animation Studios’ Frozen II ($1.454B). Disney has seven of the Top 10 animated movies ever globally, five of which are from Pixar. Directed
20th Century Studios’ successful reboot of The Planet of the Apes franchise, Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes, is streaming on Hulu on Aug. 2. That’s a great 85-day window since the movie opened in theaters to a notable $58.4M and current running domestic box office of $170.6M U.S./Canada, and $396.3M worldwide. The Wes
EXCLUSIVE: Marvel Studios/Disney‘s Deadpool & Wolverine finally opens this weekend, not only further rebounding the post-strike box office to a healthy place, but also revitalizing the MCU’s brilliance. It was only last November that the studio fell on hard times with its lowest opening ever in The Marvels at $46.1M U.S./$110M worldwide. The current range